Job 30:2

Also — the power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On them hath old age perished.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

In Context

1And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.

3With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, 'I have no pleasure in them.'

Matthew Henry on Job 30:2-15

Job's Humbled Condition. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. 2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? 3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. 5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a… Read the whole commentary →

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